I am trying to accomplish the same in Intellij as in Eclipse, but I can't get it to work. If I use Eclipse with the Websphere plugins, I can change code anytime without having to manually redeploy or restart the server (websphere liberty).
In Intellij I followed the guidelines, such that I have an exploded webapp linked to websphere. Everything works fine except for the hot deployment. Whenever I change a simple line (e.g. a statement in a servlet) I have to manually press the redeployment button so that the server picks it up. My aim is to have code changes reflect immediately in my website without having to trigger anything manually. How?